Tell me, dear people, why are concerts in Regensburg always so boring and bland? Is it just because I’ve just read a stupid article on Zeit-online that claims that we young people (at least in our heads) simply have nothing left to sing against the tsunami of opinions of 50-year-olds?
Or do the concerts in Regensburg just suck? Alte Mälze: For 15 years, the booking has been more conservative than the CSU’s stance on gay marriage. Danube arena? Yes, of course, my tinnitus likes endless reverb, my Schedl likes being naked and somehow only having the feeling of really being THERE at the concert – I’ve always been totally fed up.
Fortunately, the Gloria is finally under the carpet as a venue for concerts in Regensburg. The gentrification of Regensburg’s city centre has produced a neat masterpiece, even though they voted completely unselfishly in the referendum in favour of “throwing it on the streets” by the quiet people who will soon be suffering from lung cancer anyway.
Now, of course, it’s a huge problem with the concerts in Regensburg. You were kicked out of the dissertation if you went through a bit of a dowel on the dance floor. At the moment, gentrification is throwing all life out of Regensburg, even that which is a little bit sterm (and would therefore no longer be a problem anyway). And yes, it takes life to become sterm, which is why smokers like to talk so much – even on the street. Fix, how I miss it…
Back to the topic: concerts in Regensburg. I’ve been travelling for a long time. Many years. In Regensburg and around the world. At some point I came home again. Then there was some impertinent club that dared to call me“Heimat Regensburg” just like that. Scepticism was usually a waste against my prejudices.
But Heimat Regensburg has been doing exactly what every good concert in Regensburg should do for years: unrestricted booking: no matter what you’re playing, if it really rocks, then come here! A feeling for music that’s more great than it’s worth. A wonderfully cosy living room, even cosier than before the move. Sometimes the bands are almost having more fun than the audience, I’d almost like to say – which doesn’t mean that the audience isn’t having fun.
The fun in the first row at the concert in Regensburg – there’s almost never a second row anyway, because everyone is in the first row at every concert in Regensburg – is simply unrestricted. A signature from the whole band on the CD: Standard. Never know who the band really is: the same. Hoping for more good concerts in Regensburg, even if there are twice as many visitors as band members: normal.
I hope that this little bit of writing about concerts in Regensburg won’t change too much back home in Regensburg. If there’s a second row from time to time, I’ll be happy to join in. If a soundproofed air conditioning system is installed, I’ll just dance even more. And when the neighbours inevitably think that there are no roosters on the farm again, then I’ll be the first one to shout and crow loudly at the “city” man’s dung heap. Good night!
P.S. Every good location for concerts in Regensburg needs good pictures. I just enjoyed tonight. Friends: bring on the pictures!


Frank Woelky, born in 1973. Kitesurfer since 1998. Since 2006, I have been combining kitesurfing and web design on trips lasting several months off the beaten track.